I am happy to here you are okay that you have just been busy. I got Bob's last message late last night while watching the NRC. Looking forward to your next video.
I'm with you, Seth, gloves. I'm switching my operation over to singles this year. Just mKes sense. That lift will help you out big time. Look forward to seeing how this season pans out for you.
With as many splits as you make I'd stay away from 1.5s. I did it for 3 years and I'm going to try to transition to singles. Add a deep early in Spring and then use the top for splits. You can still shake them down to one and add honey supers at the beginning of the flow. I just shook my mediums down and added an excluder last weekend. It remains to be seen if I made a bunch of swarm starters!
Thanks Seth! I am Switching from a 2 deep to a 1 1/2 per Mr Rodger. My doubles definitely have more bees this spring than the 1 1/2s. Wishing you the Best!
Hey boss, i found the stuff to put on tip of sticks for dragonfly catching "CATCHMASTER GOOP" in a gsllon pale....I'll let you know how successful it goes and you can tell frank:) i appreciate you and Bob doing these videos more than you'll ever know, its because of yall,Kaymon and the others that i don't buy bees anymore. Y'all taught me how to actually take care of bees and with Gods faithfulness in answering prayers i now let the bees provide more hives by splitting. Please keep videos coming, yall help me stay on top of next move. Im so glad your comment last night about starvation is a great swarm prevention, i have two of the hives packed with bees and 1:1 nectar/honey so im gonna put them on restriction tomorrow and rob their storehouse for a few days while equalizing hives. Yalls methods have been tested and proven very trustworthy. Thanks bro
Great Video. Nice design on the hand truck. I'm still running double deeps and have had a heck of a time this spring. I split all my hives in mid March all the way to a single and they all still swarmed.... really weird spring. Please keep making videos.
Seth I have always run the deep an a medium brood boxes . There is a few things that I am not totally happy about with that but it is not bad enough so I can live with it. I will keep running them . Thanks for the update
@@sethhillABR Hello Seth really the only thing about the deep & medium is the rotation in the spring when the bees have moved up BUT because of my age an health I use eight frame equipment. For me I have never really had a problem with the bees going back down so it is not really a problem I usually just have a few that sometimes they are a little stubborn about going down. . I have had the best spring flow this spring that I have had in probably seven or eight years but my out yard they just about eat every single bit of it up . I had three supers on about fifteen colonies that was close to being capped an that was great for my early spring flow . Thanks I enjoy your videos. Thanks
Congratulations on the new little one!! The hand truck looks like it works good. The queens I got from you last spring, made it thru our Illinois winter and are looking great. Keep the videos coming!
What about Buckfast.... Hearing nothing but good things. Soon trying them. We currently only got wild ones. Gosh darnit, they're good though. Little bit feisty but not bad.
Gotta start somewhere! One day, you'll be doing a video on how you got your start and look back and wonder how you got anything done. Its just how it works! Keep up the hard work!
hi Seth, i remember your comment about maybe having to wear gloves when you switch to italian genetics. i watched a video from a guy in Europe, not sure where, but he said that if you wash your hands and wrists in apple cider vinegar the bees will leave your hands alone as they don't like the smell. I will try it this weekend and hope it works great. Something maybe you can try and share with your subs if it does in fact work great.
a welder at a local shop might not charge to much to make one it would probably be a lot tougher than mine. but you'd be surprised it only takes burning a rod or two to really get the hang of it. are you in the states?
Great video Seth. I enjoy your "common sense" approach to most everything....something that's way too rare these days!!! 😉 FYI...A good grinder will make you a much "better" welder!!! Ask me how I know!! 😆 Take care!!!
Deep and a medium works really well for me size wise, but: I hate having different size brood frames. Im bad about letting hives get to close to swarming (or swarming) and it’s a pain to split ‘em up when some of the brood is in medium frames. I think it would be easier if everything was interchangeable. I’m in this boat because I’m not made of money and have mostly second hand equipment.
@@sethhillABR hello to you also, no it is not ,, mites, i am down to 53 from 80 hives and the seasson is at least 2 weeks ahead this year so litel to no honey this spring, hope yoa have a better year than mine, all the best
HEY, love your channel ,your shirt is that the path that china balloon went across the usa, ? Sorry I just saw the solar eclipse on the shirt. Interesting that it seems that were on similar paths. Never stop splitting those bee colonys. Hand truck looks good!!!
Good luck Seth ..I too would like for my bees to build up quicker ..is there a queen breeder you could recommend to me that has the cordovan breed ..I currently have some of bobs stock I grafted from last year mixed with Italian ..
I wanta see the New-BaBee pic? Wonder about that axel bar getting too much of a workout over time... maybe add a pipe back there to use as foot leverage instead of the axel?
I wanted to find a bar that was 3/4 which is plenty stout enough however the 5/8 I'm curious about after a brief conversation with bob he wondered why he did not think of it sooner but to put a piece of channel iron and the back to use like a step which makes lifting almost twice as easy.
I'd think ATV with fork lift work best in those hills .. wouldn't cost much.. line up some pecan orchards for next winter will bring down the truffle dogs pay you twice your wages.. or cut of the profits or both maybe.. Appalachian truffle ends in December we will have cash falling out the truck doors after that plenty to go around
I just saw one of my new queens, shes a "black queen" any idea what she might be? And i am also transitioning;as of winter; to go with 1 ½ due to bad back , and double deeps are a pain when half honey half brood and definitely too heavy when filling with honey. I think i heard Kaymon say he is putting out a video soon on single brood management , ive run double deeps 8yrs , hope to figure best way of producing maximum honey production with single deep and medium supers .And if your ever traveling through or near taft,tn and need something welded holler and ill fix it for you
@@sethhillABR yes sir that makes sense. I’m in the Ocala national forest area. I got 50 hives at the moment but if you’re ever in the area and need a hand I would love to help out. I’ll Soak up some of that Georgia knowledge 😂😎. Plus if you ever need a place to top off and take a break, I’m 25 minutes from 441 💪🏼
Would having a deep and medium make it harder to split out nucs to sell later? Some areas i know have a higher demand for medium nucs, others not so much.
🤔Seth I think that maybe the cleanest shaved I have ever seen ya.🤨You look like you might even have gotten a hair or two cut.😂See even those 🐝girls 🐝buzzen ya think ya smell pretty. 2nd Hand Brand New Buddy.👍 Thanks for sharing your time with us Seth, have a great weekend. Blessed Days...
yeah I have to smell burnt gunpowder every so often or I get a little squirrely LOL mainly for snakes in close proximity to the bees and when I'm out fishing
Why not buckfast? The whole of Russia uses carnica and buckfast, carnica is like Caucasian, it only winters well, but buckfast is an amazing bee that combines good wintering with very powerful families (colonies). They don't flood the nest. And we don't use any protection with them, except for the smoker.
@@sethhillABR In fact, despite the ongoing war, we are quietly receiving breeding bees from Germany right in Moscow. I think it's not difficult in the USA either.
@@sethhillABR In fact, despite the ongoing war, we are quietly receiving breeding bees from Germany right in Moscow. I think it's not difficult in the USA either.
So does this mean I can get my hand truck back?😀
Congratulations on your newest little beekeeper! Rockin' yellow is great but don't give up on your gloveless style.
I hope I'm gonna find a gentle strain somewhere that has most of the characteristics that I's like to have.
I am happy to here you are okay that you have just been busy. I got Bob's last message late last night while watching the NRC. Looking forward to your next video.
And congrats on new born, Gods greatest miracle.
Thank you sir
Don't mess with Seth... he's packin'. ! 🙂 Good video as usual...!~
Always!
@@sethhillABRsafety on that bad boy or no more chitlens!
my wife would be ok with that LOL
First, hey Seth! I’m looking forward to watching the video! Hope everything is going well your way! Have a great day Seth 😁👍😎🐝
thanks grayson were hanging on by our chinny chin chins.
I like the 1.5 hives in 8 frames…
If you mate a lot of queens have medium mating nucs made and use brood frames from the .5 to fill the mating nucs!
Ambitious hive count with little equipment, you've gonna earn every dollar, rightfully so. Love the grinch impression.
Haha I’m glad you got it 👍🏻
I'm with you, Seth, gloves. I'm switching my operation over to singles this year. Just mKes sense. That lift will help you out big time. Look forward to seeing how this season pans out for you.
singles are wonderful easy and efficient mine just have a bad habit of swarming lazy beekeeping LOL!!
Nice intro Seth. Congratulations on the new born.
thank you sir been a fun sleepless three weeks
Congrats on the little one arriving.
Thank you!
Heck yes brother!!!!!! You are doing a great job!!!!
I appreciate it!
With as many splits as you make I'd stay away from 1.5s. I did it for 3 years and I'm going to try to transition to singles. Add a deep early in Spring and then use the top for splits. You can still shake them down to one and add honey supers at the beginning of the flow. I just shook my mediums down and added an excluder last weekend. It remains to be seen if I made a bunch of swarm starters!
I see thank you for the tip
Thanks Seth! I am Switching from a 2 deep to a 1 1/2 per Mr Rodger. My doubles definitely have more bees this spring than the 1 1/2s. Wishing you the Best!
Wishing you the best of luck with that
Good luck with your bees👍
Thanks, you too!
Love the videos Seth. Keep em coming
Do your 2 hive pallets leave air gap between next row of pallets.
Hey boss, i found the stuff to put on tip of sticks for dragonfly catching "CATCHMASTER GOOP" in a gsllon pale....I'll let you know how successful it goes and you can tell frank:) i appreciate you and Bob doing these videos more than you'll ever know, its because of yall,Kaymon and the others that i don't buy bees anymore. Y'all taught me how to actually take care of bees and with Gods faithfulness in answering prayers i now let the bees provide more hives by splitting. Please keep videos coming, yall help me stay on top of next move. Im so glad your comment last night about starvation is a great swarm prevention, i have two of the hives packed with bees and 1:1 nectar/honey so im gonna put them on restriction tomorrow and rob their storehouse for a few days while equalizing hives. Yalls methods have been tested and proven very trustworthy. Thanks bro
We’re happy to help that’s why we do it I’m glad our methods are working for you
Great stuff, not only do beekeepers do it in the rain, they also engineer equipment that will get the job done!
Yessir I’m getting better at it
I like it! Good stuff Seth!
thank ya bruce well have to get together and do another bee working video sometime.
Nice vid! Thanks.
Great Video. Nice design on the hand truck. I'm still running double deeps and have had a heck of a time this spring. I split all my hives in mid March all the way to a single and they all still swarmed.... really weird spring. Please keep making videos.
this spring and last spring have both been really off not experienced enough to explain it
Seth I have always run the deep an a medium brood boxes . There is a few things that I am not totally happy about with that but it is not bad enough so I can live with it. I will keep running them . Thanks for the update
Good to know!
@@sethhillABR Hello Seth really the only thing about the deep & medium is the rotation in the spring when the bees have moved up BUT because of my age an health I use eight frame equipment. For me I have never really had a problem with the bees going back down so it is not really a problem I usually just have a few that sometimes they are a little stubborn about going down. . I have had the best spring flow this spring that I have had in probably seven or eight years but my out yard they just about eat every single bit of it up . I had three supers on about fifteen colonies that was close to being capped an that was great for my early spring flow . Thanks I enjoy your videos. Thanks
Enjoyed the video, Good luck with the bee's
Congratulations on the new little one!! The hand truck looks like it works good. The queens I got from you last spring, made it thru our Illinois winter and are looking great. Keep the videos coming!
Looks like you have it figured out 👍
Almost
Thanks for sharing seth! Enjoy your videos just like i do Bob's. We been splitting here in cleveland county,nc. Thanks again Seth!
Can’t wait to get back into the bees hot and heavy hope all is going well
What about Buckfast.... Hearing nothing but good things. Soon trying them. We currently only got wild ones. Gosh darnit, they're good though. Little bit feisty but not bad.
Great talk, we need more !
Hi Seth, good stuff.
Love your intro, best on RUclips
Thank you it took a minute to get it just right
Thanks Seth! This is the direction I'm moving for my small outfit
Very interesting we’ll have to stay in touch and see how we end up this fall
Gotta start somewhere! One day, you'll be doing a video on how you got your start and look back and wonder how you got anything done. Its just how it works! Keep up the hard work!
One day at a time
Great stuff thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for watching!
hi Seth, i remember your comment about maybe having to wear gloves when you switch to italian genetics. i watched a video from a guy in Europe, not sure where, but he said that if you wash your hands and wrists in apple cider vinegar the bees will leave your hands alone as they don't like the smell. I will try it this weekend and hope it works great. Something maybe you can try and share with your subs if it does in fact work great.
that is interesting I hope they hate it more than I do LOL. Thank you for the information.
I really like your dolly. I wish my welding skills were better. I’d like to have one.
a welder at a local shop might not charge to much to make one it would probably be a lot tougher than mine. but you'd be surprised it only takes burning a rod or two to really get the hang of it. are you in the states?
@@sethhillABR I’m in SE Texas with an outyard in SW Louisiana. I plan to have more out yards by the time I retire.
great video as always, where is Heira ??
It’s just north of the Florida line about 30 minutes
Great video Seth. I enjoy your "common sense" approach to most everything....something that's way too rare these days!!! 😉 FYI...A good grinder will make you a much "better" welder!!! Ask me how I know!! 😆 Take care!!!
Deep and a medium works really well for me size wise, but: I hate having different size brood frames. Im bad about letting hives get to close to swarming (or swarming) and it’s a pain to split ‘em up when some of the brood is in medium frames. I think it would be easier if everything was interchangeable. I’m in this boat because I’m not made of money and have mostly second hand equipment.
I completely understand. it'll be an interesting learning curve to see how it works out.
Nice trailor, m gona make myself one , hy from romania
Hello hope all is well with your bees
@@sethhillABR hello to you also, no it is not ,, mites, i am down to 53 from 80 hives and the seasson is at least 2 weeks ahead this year so litel to no honey this spring, hope yoa have a better year than mine, all the best
HEY, love your channel ,your shirt is that the path that china balloon went across the usa, ? Sorry I just saw the solar eclipse on the shirt. Interesting that it seems that were on similar paths. Never stop splitting those bee colonys. Hand truck looks good!!!
Hahahahah Nah it was the eclipse from back in 2018 we’re gonna try to keep ‘em rollin
Good luck Seth ..I too would like for my bees to build up quicker ..is there a queen breeder you could recommend to me that has the cordovan breed ..I currently have some of bobs stock I grafted from last year mixed with Italian ..
I am not sure of cordovan. they are around though I will look into that and give an update.
I wanta see the New-BaBee pic? Wonder about that axel bar getting too much of a workout over time... maybe add a pipe back there to use as foot leverage instead of the axel?
I wanted to find a bar that was 3/4 which is plenty stout enough however the 5/8 I'm curious about after a brief conversation with bob he wondered why he did not think of it sooner but to put a piece of channel iron and the back to use like a step which makes lifting almost twice as easy.
Congrats, and how wide is it?
I belive 16/34 let me get back to ya on that 👍🏻
@sethhillABR 10 4, what's the width of the hand truck frame? Been thinking of making one myself
I'd think ATV with fork lift work best in those hills .. wouldn't cost much.. line up some pecan orchards for next winter will bring down the truffle dogs pay you twice your wages.. or cut of the profits or both maybe.. Appalachian truffle ends in December we will have cash falling out the truck doors after that plenty to go around
Interesting they got pecans out the ears down south what part of Appalachia you hit for truffles
Now you need to make another one for your partner. So we can help load two faster than one
I made a second one but it was built after beer thirty and the ride height got miscalculated 😂😂
Smoking ideas... thanks 😊
I just saw one of my new queens, shes a "black queen" any idea what she might be? And i am also transitioning;as of winter; to go with 1 ½ due to bad back , and double deeps are a pain when half honey half brood and definitely too heavy when filling with honey. I think i heard Kaymon say he is putting out a video soon on single brood management , ive run double deeps 8yrs , hope to figure best way of producing maximum honey production with single deep and medium supers .And if your ever traveling through or near taft,tn and need something welded holler and ill fix it for you
I’ll keep that in mind thank you singles make a load of honey for sure
Could you do a video on the pros and cons of 1.5
Are you still selling bees?
You ever plan on doing any work in Florida?
Possibly the further south the better
@@sethhillABR yes sir that makes sense. I’m in the Ocala national forest area. I got 50 hives at the moment but if you’re ever in the area and need a hand I would love to help out. I’ll Soak up some of that Georgia knowledge 😂😎. Plus if you ever need a place to top off and take a break, I’m 25 minutes from 441 💪🏼
You might want to try some side frames on your trailer young man👍
Yessir my long trailer I did weld some I’ve not gotten to the smaller ones yet coming soon
Would having a deep and medium make it harder to split out nucs to sell later? Some areas i know have a higher demand for medium nucs, others not so much.
We don’t have to much demand for a medium come splitting time I hope to run the medium on the bottom and pull resources for splits out of the top
How’s wife and baby??
🤔Seth I think that maybe the cleanest shaved I have ever seen ya.🤨You look like you might even have gotten a hair or two cut.😂See even those 🐝girls 🐝buzzen ya think ya smell pretty.
2nd Hand Brand New Buddy.👍
Thanks for sharing your time with us Seth, have a great weekend. Blessed Days...
Thanks DC it’s a refreshing feeling on the face this spring
My italian is at least 4 times as big a hive as the caucasian carnis i have .
And bred with carni caicasian the italian is just as gentle .
Those are called booger welds…. Lol
Is that a gun in your belt? I'm in Queensland I don't think I know anyone who has a gun.
yeah I have to smell burnt gunpowder every so often or I get a little squirrely LOL
mainly for snakes in close proximity to the bees and when I'm out fishing
I have a question for you Seth .
How many flood warnings in the last month ??
It seems you dont want the spring or early summer there ..
Ih hahira i mean
I get steady flood warnings about there
Not to many I think bout two this past month
We get severe weather ( 🌪)
And blizzard but not floods .
Why not buckfast? The whole of Russia uses carnica and buckfast, carnica is like Caucasian, it only winters well, but buckfast is an amazing bee that combines good wintering with very powerful families (colonies). They don't flood the nest. And we don't use any protection with them, except for the smoker.
Cordovan are pretty angry : (and they don't organize the nest properly. Buckfast has everything separately - brood, pollen, honey. Very convenient.
I would love to try them it’s hard to find a reputable breeder with a legitimate buckfast bee around my parts
@@sethhillABR In fact, despite the ongoing war, we are quietly receiving breeding bees from Germany right in Moscow. I think it's not difficult in the USA either.
@@sethhillABR In fact, despite the ongoing war, we are quietly receiving breeding bees from Germany right in Moscow. I think it's not difficult in the USA either.
Gorilla welds, ugly but strong
Hahahahahahah yessir
I suggest you become a body builder and toss the dolly and then you won’t need a gym for your body building.
using bobs big blue one I did notice my 12 oz curls got alot easier LOL
@@sethhillABR 😂😂
Bee barrels are bad
What do you mean bee barrel?